web service query bug(?)
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Greetings! First, thank you so very much for developing astrocut / tesscut! It's a very useful tool -- I've just started using it, and sailing has overall been very smooth.
Recently though, I believe I encountered a potential bug!
Behavior: using the TESScut web service, when I enter (RA, dec) = (85.8, -1.5) as in the attached screenshot, I am told "Cutout Error: No FFIs found for input target. Cutout not performed." However, the location specified is definitely in sector 6, camera 1, ccd 1 (see image on the right, with the lovely M42). This error seems to be returned for a number of the celestial coordinates on this CCD.
I checked the holdings website, which indicated that sector 6 should be fine to query.
My plan is to write up a CubeFactory + CutoutFactory routine to investigate a bit more closely, since I figure this may be because the backend database might not yet be updated through Sector 6? Nonetheless, this seemed worth reporting, since I am likely not the only one!
Thank you again your work developing and maintaining this project!
--Luke
Tried again this morning, & the error did not reproduce (i.e. the cutout was downloaded successfully). I'll leave this issue open in case there are any relevant comments to be made, but I guess it's ready for closing!
Hi! Thanks for opening this issue. My apologies for not seeing it sooner. I'm going to go ahead and close it, you are correct, it was a database issue, unfortunately tesscut can't tell when it can't find a file because it isn't there, or because the database has lost it.